One coordinate carbon and boron: Universal progenitor ligands

金属和碳之间有化学键的化合物（有机金属化学）支撑着无数重要的工业过程，从精细化学品到大宗农用化学品和聚合物合成。然而，最简单的例子，单个碳原子与金属的结合，直到最近才被发现，而且人们对它知之甚少。澳大利亚羽翼未丰的硼精细化工行业同样受益于金属基工艺。然而，单硼原子与金属结合的化合物仍然是未知的。该提案从最基本的角度，即单个硼原子或碳原子的角度，解决了金属-碳和金属-硼化学问题，包括开发新的合成方法和技能，以表征这些奇怪的物种。

Compounds with bonds between metals and carbon (organometallic chemistry) underpin innumerable important industrial processes from fine chemicals to bulk agrochemical and polymer synthesis. Yet the simplest example, a single atom of carbon bound to a metal has only recently been discovered and is poorly understood. Australia's fledgling boron fine chemicals industry similarly benefits from metal-based processes. However, compounds with a single boron atom bound to a metal remain unknown. This proposal addresses metal-carbon and metal-boron chemistry from the most basic perspective, that of a single atom of boron or carbon, including the development of novel synthetic approaches and skills for the characterisation of such curious species.